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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the public backlash against AI is 'fundamentally a crisis of trust,' responding to investor Gavin Baker's criticism that his warnings about AI risks have fueled negative sentiment. Amodei …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a rare post on X on Saturday that the AI industry can win over the public by delivering tangible scientific breakthroughs, such as actually curing cancer, rather than making big promise…
A CNBC Generation Labs survey of over 1,000 US adults aged 18 to 34 found that 81% do not trust Palantir CEO Alex Karp to act responsibly on AI, the lowest among nine tech executives, while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella re…
The Federal Reserve's SR 11-7 model risk management framework, built on deterministic model assumptions, breaks down for agentic AI systems that plan, call tools, and act through multi-step reasoning, shifting risk from …
A vendor-agnostic framework from DORA and other sources shows that AI coding tools should be judged by delivery outcomes such as change failure rate and time to restore service, not by vendor benchmarks like HumanEval sc…
Anthropic began invisibly watermarking text generated by its newest Claude models on August 2, 2026, with older models migrating over subsequent months, prompting a wave of subscription cancellations. The statistical wat…
A new analysis from SignalBloom AI examines legal liability when AI agents commit crimes, concluding that current laws are ill-equipped to assign responsibility, and proposes a framework where developers, deployers, and …
A cloud architect with a background in infra-security expresses skepticism about the current AI hype, arguing that generative AI is often added to applications without clear value. The engineer, who uses AI tools like Ch…
OpenAI has begun rolling out Computer History, a ChatGPT desktop feature for macOS that logs clicks, keystrokes, and app activity via the accessibility API instead of screenshots, and stores the resulting summaries as un…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the public's negative view of AI stems from a crisis of trust in companies, governments, and the tech industry, not from AI leaders' warnings about risks. He argued that marketing campaign…
OpenAI introduced Computer History, an opt-in feature for the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS, that records user activity across approved apps and websites to build a searchable timeline for ChatGPT and Codex. Announced on …
OpenAI has introduced Computer History, an opt-in feature for the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS that tracks user clicks and keystrokes to build a timeline of activity, which ChatGPT and Codex can reference to suggest auto…
A tool built by computer scientists at Université de Toulouse and Université Grenoble Alpes has flagged nearly 19,000 scientific papers containing at least five 'tortured phrases'—nonsensical word sequences generated by …
Facebook is hosting a wave of Islamophobic AI-generated content inciting violence against Muslim Americans, following a confrontation between far-right agitator Jake Lang and protesters in Dearborn, Michigan. Lang, a Jan…
Sequoia Capital's thesis that AI companies will sell work rather than software is flawed because using AI for a task trains the model to do it, commoditizing the service, according to a rebuttal by Andrew Côté. The durab…
Protesters from the Seattle-based direct-action group the Troublemakers stormed OpenAI's Bellevue, Washington office on August 15, 2026, demanding that AI remain a tool under human control rather than an autonomous entit…
A new website, HaveIBeenFlocked.com, lets drivers check whether their license plate has been searched in the Flock Safety database, which uses AI-powered cameras to log vehicle data. The site compiles audit logs from 6,5…
California is one step closer to banning AI chatbots from posing as therapists after Senate Bill 903 cleared the Assembly Appropriations Committee in a 13-0 vote on August 13. The bill, introduced by State Senator Steve …
A developer's essay argues that despite the rise of AI coding tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code, software engineering fundamentals remain essential. The piece contends that while AI accelerates code production,…
Anthropic, the firm behind the AI model Claude, has announced that text generated by any models launched on or after 2 August will be invisibly watermarked to indicate AI authorship, with images carrying digital signatur…